Kadam Singh

Kadam Singh was a leader of a group of Gurjars[1] who fought against the British East India Company during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. During the rebellion, he was the raja of Parikshitgarh and Mawana in Meerut district.[2]The Gurjars declared Chaudhary Kadam Singh their king to re-establish old Gurjar Raj.[3]

References
  1. Stokes, Eric (1980). The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India. Cambridge University Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-52129-770-7.
  2. Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers: Meerut. Govt. of Uttar Pradesh. 1965. p. 54.
  3. Eric Stokes; Stokes Eric (1986). The Peasant Armed: The Indian Revolt of 1857. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821570-7.


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